Shonda Rhimes Quotes

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

Ego is good.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

I think I have the right balance of believing in my own ability and having that confidence on the pitch: people watching you thinking, 'He knows he's a good player,' but without taking it to that level where it's, 'He's an arrogant so-and-so.'

I'm not cocky. I'm not arrogant. I know my value.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.

I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

Clearly I've got an ego.

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.